WOR Converter

Extract text from MapInfo workspaces (WOR)


Drop or upload your .WOR file
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How to extract text from your WOR file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WOR file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert WOR to another file type

To convert WOR workspaces to another format, you need MapInfo Pro or other GIS software.

Convert a file to WOR

To convert other file formats to the "Workspace File" file type, you need software like MapInfo Pro or a similar tool.


About WOR files

A .WOR file is a GIS project workspace file used by MapInfo Pro. It saves the layout, layer styling, zoom levels, and thematic map settings for a specific mapping session. Historically managed by MapInfo Corporation and Pitney Bowes, the software is now owned by Precisely. The fundamental disadvantage of the .WOR format is that it does not contain any actual spatial data. It is merely a script pointing to external database files like TAB, MAP, and DAT. Users often mistakenly share a .WOR file alone, resulting in broken maps for the recipient. Furthermore, it is a closed, proprietary format requiring an expensive commercial software license to render correctly. Standard online converters fail to process it because they only receive the workspace instructions, completely missing the local gigabytes of map data required to draw the final image. Users typically want to export their final map layout to PDF or JPG for sharing, or migrate their project layers to SHP or GEOJSON for use in open-source tools like QGIS. Because this file format is difficult to open or convert directly without the original software and its locally linked datasets, true spatial conversion of the workspace alone is impossible. However, just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. Because .WOR files are written in plain text MapBasic, our analysis allows you to read the internal scripts, helping you recover hardcoded file paths, SQL queries, and styling configurations even without an active MapInfo license.

Convert.Guru analyzes your WOR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted TAB, SXF and 108 files.


FAQ

If you want to convert WOR file to SHP, KML, KMZ, GPX, GEOJSON, TOPOJSON, TIF, TIFF, ECW, SID, IMG or DEM, you can use MapInfo Pro or similar software from the "GIS Project Workspace" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert LAZ, KMZ, DTM, CSV, DEM, PRJ, LAS, GPX, DSM, SHP, DBF or KML files to WOR, try MapInfo Pro or another comparable tool in the "GIS Project Workspace" category.



The WOR Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our WOR converter.